Am I the only one who finds World War I...

midnight rain · 12-20-2010, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by tore

The trench wars of WWI don't appeal to me much. In general, I think WWI lacks some of the drama and flair (dashing nazi uniforms) that large scale fascism had and I guess the trench wars sort of show that the generals of WWI didn't really know how to do tactics with their new war toys either.

What I do like from WWI is the air combat and the pilots. Although they perhaps didn't do the largest contribution to the war, it's a piece of the history away from the muddy trenches that has a bit of shine to it.

The new war toys didn't come into play until late into WWI, and at that point trench warfare did start to become obsolete.

Don't know much about the aerial aspects of WWI, will do some research on it.

I find trench warfare interesting though.

Some interesting info on "No Man's Land":No Man's Land

Guybrush · 12-20-2010, 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Tuna

Don't know much about the aerial aspects of WWI, will do some research on it.

I just like the glory

I'm no expert on it either, but from what I think I know .. If you have a fokker plane high up in the air with a machine gun on it, you're not going to be able to shift the tide of war with it. Without bombs, it's not a practical way to attack anything on the ground, so it's mostly a threat to whatever's in the air.

Holding "tactical air mass" is of course also problematic because planes can only stay up for so long. So generally, these planes and pilots fought eachother. How much that contributed to the war effort on either side is probably negligible compared to what went on closer to the ground, but they also used zeppelins for bombing which is cool.

OccultHawk · 12-20-2010, 03:58 AM

The first world war has cooler imagery, especially with those moonscapes and gasmasks chemical zones, but WWII had more clear cut good guys and bad guys giving it a more dramatic story line.

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OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	The first world war has cooler imagery, especially with those moonscapes and gasmasks chemical zones, but WWII had more clear cut good guys and bad guys giving it a more dramatic story line.